The IT inside the world’s biggest company

In: management & operations

24 Jul 2002

CIO.com (that’s Wal-mart):

"In any development effort, our [IS] people are expected to get out and do the function before they do the system specification, design or change analysis. The key there is to do the function, not just observe it. So we actually insert them into the business roles. As a result, they come back with a lot more empathy and a whole lot better understanding and vision of where we need to go and how we need to proceed."

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